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In reply to the discussion: Charlie Kirk is the martyr they needed [View all]MadameButterfly
(4,157 posts)40. Though not this, they would have found something
or created something, and still will.
If Trump wants martial law, he'll get martial law.
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Brownshirts cracking heads in streets...oh, wait...that is Redhats doing that...n/t
PatrickforB
Sep 2025
#48
Agree...in a few days he'll be like rush limbaugh....nobody will be talking about him.
PortTack
Sep 2025
#50
Of course we know ALL social media posts are true. Republicans couldn't have planted those posts at all.
live love laugh
Sep 2025
#6
There are worse videos and comments of attacks on Democrats like Pelosi's husband. Nobody threatened Civil War for the
live love laugh
Sep 2025
#12
St. Charlie himself graced Paul Pelosi with his gentle wit after he was attacked.
Crunchy Frog
Sep 2025
#20
I follow journalist Greg Sargent on Bluesky, as I did on Twitter. Yesterday I saw him copying
highplainsdem
Sep 2025
#14
Quite so. And I honestly had no real reply to those who have said "Stop pointing fingers at us!"
Hellbound Hellhound
Sep 2025
#15
Agreed. Btw, this is what Mamdani posted yesterday on Bluesky - "I'm horrified by the shooting of
highplainsdem
Sep 2025
#23
fascists don't need a martyr, they can pull any crap they want without an excuse and get away with it
ImNotGod
Sep 2025
#2
sometimes when you are dealing with zealots, they may decide martyrs are necessary...
dweller
Sep 2025
#4
Good post and idea but, not so sure. People have the attention span to repeat this sentence.
chouchou
Sep 2025
#10
I might be wrong for the first time in my life but this shooting does not pass my smell test.
Botany
Sep 2025
#11
VERY orchestrated. The bloodlust chorus of shrill RW voices is telling.
live love laugh
Sep 2025
#49
Releasing that they had recovered the rifle and gave out the type and caliber of the weapon is really strange
Botany
Sep 2025
#54
And less then a month or two ago we have one of Trump's ICE agents saying that he was there (some US ..
Botany
Sep 2025
#59
As if "he was the martyr they needed" was the only reason, they wanted to do this for years
tornado34jh
Sep 2025
#36
I'm trying to dig myself out of this thought, but I fear he's the 21st century equivalent of Ft. Sumter.
Pacifist Patriot
Sep 2025
#43
My hope is that Charlie's followers will blame Dumpy because of the Epstein stuff.
Clouds Passing
Sep 2025
#46